The top editor of Gannett’s biggest New Jersey papers — who for months has been cutting jobs and helping the publisher implement a “One Jersey” newsroom concept — is heading south.

Rick Green, who served as VP of news for Gannett’s North Jersey Media Group, overseeing the state’s second-largest daily, The (Bergen) Record, and two smaller papers, the Asbury Park Press and the New Jersey Herald — as well as dozens of weeklies — has been named editor of the company’s Courier-Journal in Louisville, the Kentucky paper reported Friday.

No replacement has been named at North Jersey Media. At Gannett’s largest-circulation daily in the Garden State — The Record, in Hackensack — Dan Sforza, a longtime reporter and editor, has been named news director.

In all, roughly 250 jobs have been cut and several weeklies were shuttered.

Gannett added the Borg family papers to its existing papers in the state to better battle The Star-Ledger, the Newark daily owned by the Newhouse family, and other dailies.

On Friday, Hollis Towns, the executive editor since 2008 of Gannett’s Asbury Park Press, the state’s third-largest daily, was at The Record explaining the concept of “One Jersey” to staffers.

“The state will be zoned into north and south for any statewide stories — like a plane crash,” said one insider at the Towns talk, noting that perhaps just one Gannett reporter would cover it and send the story to all papers.

Some staffers at The Record bristled at the concept, feeling that the larger, better-performing North Jersey paper would be playing second fiddle to the smaller central New Jersey paper, one source said.

Gannett, the parent of USA Today, reported earlier this week that revenue in the first quarter fell 6.5 percent, to $723 million.

Its shares, roughly flat for the year, fell 10 cents on Friday, to $11.57.

Green will also serve as Midwest regional editor of the USA Today Network. Joel Christopher, the Courier-Journal’s current editor, will report to Green.